Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 144.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beaumaris Sandstone Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• "Yellow sandy beds" implied to be Lower Pliocene. Formation previously named the Black Rock Sandstone, but renamed to avoid confusion with unit in New South Wales.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: F. McCoy. 1876. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria. Decade 3. 1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179945: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016

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